NEWS NOTES

Best Paper Award
The NCCS' Carrie Spear (former employee) and Jim McGalliard received a Best Paper award at the Computer Measurement Group 2007 International Conference in San Diego, CA. Their paper, "A Queue Simulation Tool for a High-Performance Scientific Computing Center," describes a software tool that Spear developed to optimize the performance of NCCS Linux cluster systems. McGalliard presented the paper at the conference on December 3.

http://cisto-news.gsfc.nasa.gov/08_spring/queue_simulation.cmg07.pdf